Jeremiah 46:3

King James Version

Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
"Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!

Geneva Bible (1587)
Make readie buckler and shielde, and goe forth to battell.

Christian Standard Bible®
Deploy small shields and large;approach for battle!

Hebrew Names Version
Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Darby Translation
Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!

Easy-to-Read Version
"Get your large and small shields ready. March out for battle.

Amplified Bible
"Line up the buckler (small shield) and [large] shield, And advance for battle!

American Standard Version
Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Berean Standard Bible
"Deploy your shields, small and large, and advance for battle!

Contemporary English Version
It's time to go into battle! So grab your shields,

Complete Jewish Bible
"Prepare breastplate and shield! Advance to battle!

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

King James Version (1611)
Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw neere to battell.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all the leaders of the king of Babylon went in, and sat in the middle gate, Marganasar, and Samagoth, and Nabusachar, and Nabusaris, Nagargas, Naserrabamath, and the rest of the leaders of the king of Babylon,

English Revised Version
Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Lexham English Bible
"Prepare small shield and shield, and approach for the battle!

Literal Translation
Set in order the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

New Century Version
"Prepare your shields, large and small, and march out for battle!

New English Translation
"Fall into ranks with your shields ready! Prepare to march into battle!

New King James Version
"Order the buckler and shield, And draw near to battle!

New Living Translation
"Prepare your shields, and advance into battle!

New Life Bible
"Get your coverings ready and go out to the battle!

New Revised Standard
Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Prepare ye buckler and shield, And draw near to battle:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to battle.

George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take up the buckler and shield and draw near to battle.

Good News Translation
"The Egyptian officers shout, ‘Get your shields ready and march into battle!

New American Standard Bible
"Set up the buckler and shield, And advance to the battle!

Webster's Bible Translation
Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Make redy buckler and shielde, and go foorth to fight.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Make ye redi scheeld and targat, and go ye forth to batel.

Young's Literal Translation
`Set ye in array shield and buckler, And draw nigh to battle.

World English Bible
Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Revised Standard Version
"Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!

Update Bible Version
Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Bible in Basic English
Get out the breastplate and body-cover, and come together to the fight.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye make redy buckler and shylde, ye go forth to fight:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Line up the shield and buckler, And draw near for the battle!

Legacy Standard Bible
"Arrange the shield and large shield,And draw near for the battle!

Contextual Overview

¹ The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles; ² Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. ³ Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. ⁴ Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines. ⁵ Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord . ⁶ Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates. ⁷ Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? ⁸ Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. ⁹ Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow. ¹⁰ For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

This is a poetical and ironical call to the Egyptians to muster their forces; and implies that all their courage and efforts would be vain. Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:12, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Isaiah 21:5, Joel 3:9, Nahum 2:1, Nahum 3:14

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 46:14 - Stand Ezekiel 38:7 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Genesis 15:13
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Genesis 22:17
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Genesis 35:11
And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

Genesis 46:1
And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

Genesis 46:2
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Genesis 46:3
And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

Genesis 46:7
His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Order ye the buckler and shield,.... Both signify one and the same sort of armour, only of a different form, the one being lesser and lighter than the other. Jarchi makes the difference to be, that the former was made of skin, the latter of wood; they were both used to defend the body in war. To order them is not only to prepare them, and get them ready; but to fit them to the body, and to put them on, that they might be in a readiness to engage in battle. The exhortation is made either to the Chaldean army, to prepare to fight against the Egyptians; or to the army of Pharaohnecho, to defend themselves against the king of Babylon, who was coming against them, as Kimchi and Abarbinel, who seem to be in doubt which it should be; but the latter is most probable: and it is either a direction of Pharaoh to his army, to be in readiness; or rather of God, speaking ironically to them, suggesting, that let them do what they would, and make ever such preparations for battle, all would come to nothing, victory would be on the other side;

and draw near to battle; engage the enemy briskly, and with the greatest courage, and use all your military skill; and, when ye have done, it will all be in vain.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Order ye ... - “i. e., prepare ye, make ready.” The buckler was a small round target carried by the lightly-armed troops: the shield belonged to the heavily-armed troops, and was large enough to protect the whole body.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 46:3. Order ye the buckler — This is the call to the general armament of the people against the Chaldeans.